Some notes on problems in A/UX

[Hugh Daniel]

> liam at cs.qmc.ac.uk (William Roberts) wrote:

  Haveing fixed some of the bugs that liam at cs.qmc.ac.uk pointed out in 
his bugreport months ago, I guess it would be better to post them to this
group insted of just hopeing things are better next time round.

> 3. FSCK Problem
	This is a problem with the boot scripts, the program /bin/pname
	is not getting run before non root files systems are fsck'ed.
	To fix, put a line like "/bin/paname -a" in /etc/bcheckrc near
	the begining.  Then commment out the old "pname -a" in brc (You
	don't have to do this, all it will do is give some strange useless
	error messages).

> 4. /etc/NETADDRS has no apparent effect
	This file seems to be used by the software that deals with the
	ehter card.  If you get this IP adderss out of sync with the
	*REAL* one in /etc/hosts then you will have a broken network
	after the next boot.

> 1. "sync" and "powerdown" do not fully sync the disk?
	This is a standard system five problem ("Considder it Sub...").
	What I now do for ALL non crash reboots is to become root, do
	a "sync;sync;umount -a" then a "sync;powerdown" or reboot.  This
	will do a good job of saveing the non root filesystems from 
	damage, but the root is still fryed on reboot much of the time.
	(Question: Has anyone else run into cases where fsck finds a 
	problem, reboots, then finds ANOTHER problem so bad it has to
	reboot a second time?  I have seen this in A/UX and never 
	elsewhere.)

> 1. dumpfs missing from our 80 Meg disk
	Also restore, rdump, rrestore and rmt, all of which would be
	usefull at our site.  As things stand now since I have to work
	hard to backup my A/UX box I never put hard work that I would
	not want to lose on my A/UX system.  Everything lives on a Sun,
	this also gets around the problem of 14 or less character file
	names.

                ||ugh Daniel
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